This is the story of me, myself and my entrepreneurial dreams. It all started on a June night. All the usual suspects from my friends circle were there that night. We had finished our dinner and each of us were sittng along with our better halves. The talks ranged from bollywood to mallu porn to green card. :) The strand of conversation moved towards business ideas and making money.
That was when VS (for the sake of anonymity and personal reasons, I will refer to them this way) came up with this brilliant idea. I don't know if each one of us were equally convinced about the idea. But at least I was. Thus the Entre-I-Wish-Preneur was born.
One thing to led to another and we started talking about the idea pretty much everyday. Things began to get serious. We initially had a bunch of people interested. But it got whittled down to 4 of us. VS, NS, RS and myself. :) Hey never noticed that all my partners have their last names starting with the same letter. :) Well at least that makes me different.
In the next few months, we would talk and talk and talk about everything and anything about the idea. We think this would be the next big thing in the web world. Yes I know every third internet-savvy person has an idea about the next big thing in the web world. That's why I am not going to rave anymore about the idea. Instead I hope someday it would speak for itself.
Let me talk about my enterprising bunch of partners. Here it goes -
VS - I think he is funny. Plain and simple but bordering slightly on the paranoid side. But he is funny. I have known him from my graduate days at Temple university. He was doing his PhD in statistics and I was doing my graduate studies in computer science. I guess I will talk about my Temple days another day. But we met due to a common friend who by the way is a topic of discussion in himself. From day one, VS is clear on one thing - that I am a lazy ass. :) I think he still thinks that. :) On a serious note, VS should be credited with getting this idea to the table. He apparently was inspired by his brother, an budding entrepreneur himself. He is a great multi-tasker and has on various occasions put us in shame. He does bring in oodles of energy into the team.
NS - You want this guy next to you the next time you want to negotiate something. A street-smart, glib-talking negotiator. He was my roomie at Temple and we went about doing our Master's together. He was always the guy who had all the practical answers to problems. He always goes one step ahead of the rest to maintain relationship. A good executer with great commitment. We share the same passion in making money.
RS - My oldest pal. We go back to engineering school back in India. Wow those were the days. I promise I will write about those memories some day. So back to RS. So he is the techie in our group. He is a civil engineer by education but a web-pro by profession. We kind of rely on him for our final product. We need an RS-stamp for every idea. He lets us know from a technical perspective what does it require to get the idea to fruition.
In the days to come I am going to try and chronicle all the events that have gone into my Entre-I-Wish-Preneur sojourn.
-AMK
That was when VS (for the sake of anonymity and personal reasons, I will refer to them this way) came up with this brilliant idea. I don't know if each one of us were equally convinced about the idea. But at least I was. Thus the Entre-I-Wish-Preneur was born.
One thing to led to another and we started talking about the idea pretty much everyday. Things began to get serious. We initially had a bunch of people interested. But it got whittled down to 4 of us. VS, NS, RS and myself. :) Hey never noticed that all my partners have their last names starting with the same letter. :) Well at least that makes me different.
In the next few months, we would talk and talk and talk about everything and anything about the idea. We think this would be the next big thing in the web world. Yes I know every third internet-savvy person has an idea about the next big thing in the web world. That's why I am not going to rave anymore about the idea. Instead I hope someday it would speak for itself.
Let me talk about my enterprising bunch of partners. Here it goes -
VS - I think he is funny. Plain and simple but bordering slightly on the paranoid side. But he is funny. I have known him from my graduate days at Temple university. He was doing his PhD in statistics and I was doing my graduate studies in computer science. I guess I will talk about my Temple days another day. But we met due to a common friend who by the way is a topic of discussion in himself. From day one, VS is clear on one thing - that I am a lazy ass. :) I think he still thinks that. :) On a serious note, VS should be credited with getting this idea to the table. He apparently was inspired by his brother, an budding entrepreneur himself. He is a great multi-tasker and has on various occasions put us in shame. He does bring in oodles of energy into the team.
NS - You want this guy next to you the next time you want to negotiate something. A street-smart, glib-talking negotiator. He was my roomie at Temple and we went about doing our Master's together. He was always the guy who had all the practical answers to problems. He always goes one step ahead of the rest to maintain relationship. A good executer with great commitment. We share the same passion in making money.
RS - My oldest pal. We go back to engineering school back in India. Wow those were the days. I promise I will write about those memories some day. So back to RS. So he is the techie in our group. He is a civil engineer by education but a web-pro by profession. We kind of rely on him for our final product. We need an RS-stamp for every idea. He lets us know from a technical perspective what does it require to get the idea to fruition.
In the days to come I am going to try and chronicle all the events that have gone into my Entre-I-Wish-Preneur sojourn.
-AMK
